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Show OREM TIMES Thursday, September 27, 2007 gFORTSR3EiC Page 14 wwmimiim f ' 05? 0 G r la A 725 APR IPRIME -1M FOB SIX MONTHS ZIONS BANK b LOW 5 74 i APR (0.51 BELOW PRIME THEREAFTER! Lamb Continued from Page II way to scoring runs of 75, 68, ((), M and 49 yards over his first five games. Whatever the case may be, don't expect Lamb to be the one to shed light onto how he came across his abilities. The player who Orem coach Bob Steele calLs, "The shiftiest runner run-ner I've ever seen," can't even explain his own shiftiness. "I don't know why I can cut like that," Lamb said. "Things just go through my mind really re-ally fast, I can just see a lot of things I guess. I see defenders defend-ers coming and it just goes through my mind what I can do." Whatever Lamb decides he can do normally shows up t'o others as something that defenders cannot do; which is tackle him. "I le's able to do what you coach. He cuts at full speed," Steele said. "He's not huge but he never gets hit very hard. He reminds me of when we'd play against Reno Mahe when he was at Brighton, one second he's there and the next he's gone." While athletes are often judged by what they do in games that are won, one of Lamb's greatest moments came Orem's close loss to Timpanogos earlier this season. sea-son. Lamb paced the Tiger offense by scoring three touchdowns on 250 total ) D MARIO RUIZNorth County Orem High School running back Tucker Lamb makes his way through the Timpanogos defense for a 66-yard run to the end zone on Sept. 14. yards, while anchoring the defense from his linebacker position. Late in the game, after aggravating ag-gravating one of his ankle sprain's Lamb continued to go hard, busting off large chunks of yardage on Orem's final drive to get into field goal position. po-sition. After each run, Lamb would return to the huddle with a limp, but coming out of the game never crossed his mind. "You just don't ever think about how you're tired or hurt, you just have to keep going," Lamb said. "There's no way you're going to come out. That was just such a fun time. We were playing together as a team, but unfortunately we couldn't finish it out." Lamb's desire to win is one of the things coach Steele says sets the young man apart. "If you had a whole team like that you'd be state champions. champi-ons. Besides the desire he's got the skills to go with it," Steele said. "He wants to win all the time. He loves the game and is always trying to make the team better." One of the ways Lamb tries to make the team better is by never taking a break during practice. After finishing his reps with the first team on one side of the ball, Lamb will often switch to the other side to join the scout team. "If I'm not going to be in on one thing, I might as well be doing something else," Lamb said. "It's just more fun to be playing than to be sitting on the side. I love playing both ways, sometimes you get tired but I couldn't stand just playing play-ing one way." Lamb's love for the game should hardly come as a surprise. sur-prise. Tucker's dad Barry has spent 14 years as an assistant football coach at BYU during his coaching career of more than 30 years. Although Barry was an Ail-American linebacker lineback-er in junior college, he may not even be the most athletic of Tucker's parents. That honor could just as easily go to his mother Karen who is a mem ber of the BYU Athletic Hall of Fame and who also served as the Cougars' volleyball coach for a while. "My dad's been a coach for longer than I've been alive," Tucker said. "When I was little, all I did was play football with my brothers. I've got to meet a bunch of players and I've always wanted to be like these guys at BYU." Lamb has always been around BYU players, but over the summer he got the opportunity oppor-tunity to work out with them. Given his heritage, it's no surprise that Tucker hopes to attend BYU and play football, most likely as a walk-on. "I think I'll just want to go to BYU and mooch off my parents par-ents as much as I can," Tucker said with a laugh. "I like living here." Lamb has received moderate interest from other programs, but should he wind up a Cougar, Cou-gar, don't expect him to get special treatment. "I wouldn't want it to be different dif-ferent 'cause I'm the coach's son, but it would be good to be with my dad," Lamb said. Although Lamb has plans for his future, which include writing writ-ing a book, his focus is set on Friday night's matchup against Timpview. The rivalry game could also decide the region championship. "It'd be nice to bring them down a notch," Lamb said. Ironically, the T'Birds might have trouble doing just that with Lamb. Forward Continued from Page 11 accomplish that goal, starting with a win over a young but tough Viking squad. Timpanogos has shown it can score throughout the season but its defense needs to show it can stop people before the T'Wolves can be considered a legitimate title contender. If Timpanogos can limit its mistakes it has a good chance of knocking off Pleasant Grove in a high scoring game. Soccer k Springviile at Mountain View, Thursday, 4 p.m.: It's not often that Orem will be rooting for the Bruins but that will be the case today when Mountain View takes on the first place Red Devils. Springville's confidence should be high after it downed the Tigers on Tuesday, however how-ever Mountain is also hot and should make it a good game. The Bruins need a win to stay ahead of Provo for the region's No. 3 seed. I Timpanogos at Lone Peak, Tuesday, 4 p.m.: The T'Wolves' upset loss to Lehi on Tuesday lessened the importance of this game, which otherwise would have been for the region championship, cham-pionship, however it's still a big game. Timpanogos coach Natalyn Lewis has promised that a different team will take the field in the rematch of the Knights' 4-1 win earlier this month. The T'Wolves need a positive result to move into the playoffs with some momentum. mo-mentum. Volleyball I Orem at Mountain View, Thursday, 6:30 p.m.: Not only is this a rivalry game for the two teams but it could also go a long way in determining the Region 7 champion. The Bruins took sole possession pos-session of first with a big win over Payson, but if the Tigers win they will gain a share of the lead. J i iVt" Sir imui fc . . - ' . i i r ' - kJ-H X-tl3t; . ? ( A little furnace lovin' . Cats are self-cleaning and self-maintaining, but they view everyone around them as objects to do their bidding. Your furnace is just the opposite. It takes orders from you. loves you, won't shed on you and wants to serve you all winter. All it needs is a little preparatory affection. 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